Peter Rodman and Michael Lind claimed that the US intervention saved Cambodia from collapse in 1970 and 1973.

The band released their second album, ELO 2 in 1973, which produced their first US chart single, a hugely elaborate version of the Chuck Berry classic " Roll Over Beethoven ".

* 1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller Test for obscenity in U. S. law.

* 1973 – Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.

* 1973 – The Watergate Scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.

Four hundred animals were captured from southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas from 1973 to 1980 by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

The major exception to this occurred during the 1973 oil crisis when Saudi Arabia, with the other Arab oil states, used an embargo on oil supplies to pressurize the US to stop supporting Israel.

Initially its value was fixed, so that 1 SDR = 1 US dollar, but this was abandoned in favor of a currency basket after the 1973 collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates.

In 1973 Venezuela voted to nationalize its oil industry outright, effective 1 Jan. 1976, with Petróleos de Venezuela ( PDVSA ) taking over and presiding over a number of holding companies ; in subsequent years, Venezuela built a vast refining and marketing system in the US and Europe.

For comparison the UK 1973 figures were 6. 3 % and 38. 8 %, and the US in 1972, 4. 5 % and 42. 8 %.

Part of the demise of this feature was the 1973 oil crisis with rising fuel prices, and also concerns about proposed US emission standards legislation.

Israel and the US have alleged also that Arafat was involved in the 1973 Khartoum diplomatic assassinations, in which five diplomats and five others were killed.

Despite intervention, market pressures caused the yen to continue climbing in value, peaking temporarily at an average of ¥ 271 per US $ 1 in 1973 before the impact of the 1973 oil crisis was felt.

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Meeting between US president Richard Nixon and vice president Gerald Ford and Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1973

* 1973 – There Goes Rhymin ' Simon ( US Cashbox )

* Jim Murray ( pitcher ) ( 1894 – 1973 ), US baseball player for Brooklyn Robins

From 1963 to 1973 the area had a different name as US President Lyndon Johnson by executive order renamed the area " Cape Kennedy.

All US manned flights after Gemini 3 were controlled from the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, renamed for Johnson in 1973.

The US Rehabilitation Act of 1973 requires all organizations that receive government funding to provide accessibility programs and services.

For a variety of reasons ( including Mauchly's June 1941 examination of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer, prototyped in 1939 by John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry ), US patent 3, 120, 606 for ENIAC, granted in 1964, was voided by the 1973 decision of the landmark federal court case Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, putting the invention of the electronic digital computer in the public domain and providing legal recognition to Atanasoff as the inventor of the first electronic digital computer.

It was shot in Watts on a budget of less than US $ 10, 000 over roughly a year's worth of weekends in 1972 and 1973, with additional shooting in 1975.

* US v Dionisio: 410 US 1 ( 1973 ) 1973, Lawyers Edition, Second Series 35, 67 ; 93 SC 774

( Open Court, 1973.

In 1973 he played junior employee Granville in the first programme of the comedy anthology Seven of One, called Open All Hours ( BBC ) and starring Barker as the miserly proprietor of a corner shop.

In 1973, Snead became the oldest player to make a cut in a U. S. Open at age 61.

* 1973 West Virginia Open

In golf, BYU alumni include two major championship winners: Johnny Miller (' 69 ) at the 1973 U. S. Open and 1976 British Open and Mike Weir (' 92 ) at the 2003 Masters.

" In urban legend it is proposed that Ronnie Barker got the idea for Open All Hours when he visited the local Riddifords grocer's-however, Open All Hours ran from 1976, following a pilot in 1973, long before the filming and broadcast of " The Worm That Turned " in 1980.

Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke which ran for four series ( 26 episodes in all over three broadcast runs ) a first run in 1976, a second run in 1981, third in 1982 and a fourth in 1985, with a pilot episode from the Seven of One series in 1973.

He was also a runner-up seven times in Grand Slam singles, a doubles runner-up with Năstase at the 1973 French Open, and a mixed doubles runner-up with Chris Evert at the 1974 US Open.

The two would team up to win the doubles championships at the 1973 Wimbledon and the 1975 US Open.

He also won 15 doubles titles ( including the men's doubles titles at Wimbledon in 1973 and the US Open in 1975 ).

In 1973 Evert was the runner-up at the French Open and the Wimbledon Tournament.

" Evert rebounded with another clay court streak that reached 64 matches ( including titles at the 1979 and 1980 French Open ) before ending with a semi-final loss to eventual winner Hana Mandlíková at the 1981 French Open ( a record of 189 victories in 191 matches on clay from 1973 to 1981 ).

At the age of 71, Sarazen made a hole-in-one at the 1973 British Open Championship.

Prior to the launch of Major League Soccer in 1996, teams from Los Angeles played in the Western American Soccer League, the North American Soccer League and the American Soccer League / A-League, winning ten league championships ( 1955, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1974, 1976 ), seven Lamar Hunt US Open Cups ( 1958, 1964, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981 ), four regional championships ( 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961 ) and one international championship ( 1975 ).

When he won the 1973 Ohio King's Island Open, he became the first PGA Tour player to win a Tour event over a course which he designed himself.

Despite reaching the final at her first two appearances in 1971 and 1972, after 1973 Goolagong did not compete at the French Open championships for a decade.

He is the second male player to win a Grand Slam without dropping a set and the first one to achieve this feat at French Open ( 1973 ).

His record at the U. S. Open included seven other top five finishes, and he contended in that championship as late as 1973, when he was 53.

He was also a tutor with the Open University from 1970 until 1973.

He was Chancellor of the Open University from 1973 to 1978.